This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...The natives use sections of the fruit strung together for necklaces. The mango tree, which grows here, is beautiful and attractive. It grows as tall as the oak, and has a rich and glossy foliage. The fruit is shaped something like a short, thick cucumber, and is as large as a large pear. It has a thick, tough skin, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...The natives use sections of the fruit strung together for necklaces. The mango tree, which grows here, is beautiful and attractive. It grows as tall as the oak, and has a rich and glossy foliage. The fruit is shaped something like a short, thick cucumber, and is as large as a large pear. It has a thick, tough skin, and a delicious, juicy pulp. When ripe, it is golden in color.' The alligator pear grows on a tree with laurel-like leaves, from seventy to seventy-five feet high. The fruit is like a huge pear, with a smooth, green skin, which turns brown if the pear be allowed to hang too long. CONCLUSION At the wharf the laborers are busy with goods which are to be shipped to the United States on the vessel that is to take us there. If we could examine the contents of the boxes and bags at the docks we should find sugar, rice, fruits and nuts, coffee, skins, hides and wool. What shall we take home as mementoes of our visit? While we have been thinking about this, the natives also have been thinking. They know our ship sails to-morrow, and at this moment, this last afternoon, come to the hotel with the very things we wish. They spread their wares about on the veranda, in order that we may make our selections. There are fans and mats made of dried grasses; wooden walking sticks decorated with carved figures; baskets, bags, beadwork, belts made of seeds, lace mats, and necklaces of the candle tree beads. We make our selections and pay for them. The sellers are pleased, and so are we. And now we must leave this "Paradise of the Pacific," these "Rainbow Islands," with their fountains of molten lava, their coffee, sugar, and rice fields, their surrounding green hills, and their famous "singing sands." It is hard to sail away from these ...
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. One of the publisher's "The Plan Book Series". 88 pp. plus advertising. Illustrated, including a color frontispiece. Light wear to the extremities. There are some bleached spots on the board. There are three previous owner's names on the front endpapers: A convent, an individual (both rubber-stamped) and a written name dated 1903. In a sound binding with hinges intact.